Isabel Fonseca
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Isabel Fonseca is an American-Uruguayan writer and critic best known for her non-fiction book "Bury Me Standing," a study of Romani culture, as well as for her work as a novelist and essayist.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Isabel Fonseca canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T7674889 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isabel Fonseca Context triple: [Martin Amis, spouse, Isabel Fonseca]
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A.
Isabel Barreto
Isabel Barreto was a late 16th-century Spanish navigator and colonial figure often regarded as one of the first known female admirals in history, noted for her role in Pacific exploration.
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B.
Isabel Costa
Isabel Costa is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, and without additional context it most likely refers to a contemporary Portuguese- or Spanish-speaking woman active in a professional or public domain.
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C.
Lucia Moniz
Lucia Moniz is a Portuguese actress and singer best known internationally for her role in the film "Love Actually."
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D.
Isabel Moniz
Isabel Moniz was the daughter of Portuguese noblewoman Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, linking her to a prominent maritime and aristocratic family of the Age of Discovery.
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E.
Teresa Lourenço
Teresa Lourenço was a Portuguese noblewoman best known as the mother of King John I of Portugal, founder of the Avis dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isabel Fonseca Target entity description: Isabel Fonseca is an American-Uruguayan writer and critic best known for her non-fiction book "Bury Me Standing," a study of Romani culture, as well as for her work as a novelist and essayist.
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A.
Isabel Barreto
Isabel Barreto was a late 16th-century Spanish navigator and colonial figure often regarded as one of the first known female admirals in history, noted for her role in Pacific exploration.
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B.
Isabel Costa
Isabel Costa is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, and without additional context it most likely refers to a contemporary Portuguese- or Spanish-speaking woman active in a professional or public domain.
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C.
Lucia Moniz
Lucia Moniz is a Portuguese actress and singer best known internationally for her role in the film "Love Actually."
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D.
Isabel Moniz
Isabel Moniz was the daughter of Portuguese noblewoman Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, linking her to a prominent maritime and aristocratic family of the Age of Discovery.
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E.
Teresa Lourenço
Teresa Lourenço was a Portuguese noblewoman best known as the mother of King John I of Portugal, founder of the Avis dynasty.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (32)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
essayist
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literary critic ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Barnard College
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Columbia University ⓘ |
| ethnicOrigin | Uruguayan ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Romani studies
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cultural criticism ⓘ literary criticism ⓘ |
| genre |
essay
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fiction ⓘ non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasChild |
James Amis
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Louis Amis ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| movement | contemporary literature ⓘ |
| nationality |
American
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Uruguayan ⓘ |
| notableFor | study of Romani culture ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Attachment
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Bury Me Standing ⓘ essays in major literary journals ⓘ |
| occupation |
critic
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essayist ⓘ novelist ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| placeOfResidence |
London
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linked to:
London, England
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| spouse | Martin Amis ⓘ |
| work |
Attachment: A Novel
ⓘ
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Isabel Fonseca Description of subject: Isabel Fonseca is an American-Uruguayan writer and critic best known for her non-fiction book "Bury Me Standing," a study of Romani culture, as well as for her work as a novelist and essayist.
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.